#womenslives

This morning I opened my email account to find another death threat. The sender said they knew where I live and work. They said they would be waiting. Within two months they would cut off my head and ...

We cannot expect poor women feeding their families on food stamps to have the same priorities as female lawyers hoping to become partners in law firms. We cannot expect working-class women concerned w...

I was 14, I was trying to catch the train home – I’d been to friends place after school. I had to walk through a group of guys who were sitting in the way: sprawled across the stairs at the train stat...

Imagine you’re 15 years old. You go to the emergency room because you slammed your finger in a door, and you walk out with the biggest news of your life. Well, that 15-year-old was me.A Simple Hospita...

Everyone laughed when Piper Chapman emerged from the shower during the first season of Orange Is the New Black with bootleg shoes made of maxi pads – and inmates do sometimes waste precious resources ...

As deputy editor of the New Statesman, I’ve just discovered, pointing out that many powerful women are childless provokes a deeply emotive debateIt is not every day you get told off by Nicola Sturgeon...

At first blush, all of this speaking advice sounds like empowerment. Stop sugarcoating everything, ladies! Don’t hedge your requests! Refuse to water down your opinions! But are women the ones who nee...

Niamh, 39, was 14 weeks into her pregnancy when she found out her baby had a fatal foetal abnormality and would die in her womb before the end of the final trimester.
“I remember just sitting in my c...

https://embed.theguardian.com/embed/video/commentisfree/video/2015/jun/24/hijab-not-oppression-feminist-statement-video
Hanna Yusuf asks why a simple piece of clothing is seen as the very epitome of ...

There is a narrative about punk – call it the American Hardcore narrative – that women and non-binary-gendered people were active in punk during the initial wave, then disappeared as the 1980s progr...

There is a narrative about punk – call it the American Hardcore narrative – that women and non-binary-gendered people were active in punk during the initial wave, then disappeared as the 1980s progres...

Season three of Orange is the New Black is (almost) here! While creator Jenji Kohan and the whole cast have been pretty tight-lipped about what we can expect this season, which starts streaming on Net...

women’s stories: a graphic novel illustrates the architecture of immigration detention (via bitch):
In the United States, a Congressional mandate requires that approximately Immigration and Customs E...

On the night of May 25, 2014, I curled up in bed and waited to die.My Twitter mentions were bursting with reasons why I should. I was a man-hater. I was a rabid feminist. I was capitalizing on a trage...

smitethepatriarchy: survivorspeaks:I knew my family would be upset, but I never expected the intensity of their rage and their unabashed support of my rapist. They repeatedly reminded me that I was ru...